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Key: Various
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CD: TRACKS 47-50
Will improve your
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Chordal ideas
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Double-stops
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Quarter-tone bends
Many people would have first noticed Otis Rush’s name as composer of the song All Your Love, the opening track on John Mayall’s legendary Beano album with Eric Clapton on guitar. Perhaps one of the blues world’s most unsung heroes, Rush hailed from Mississippi, but moved to Chicago in the late 40s, still in his teens, and made a name for himself on the local circuit. He signed a deal with Cobra records and released his first single, I Can’t Quit You Baby in 1956. He had some initial success with this, getting to number 6 on Billboard’s R&B chart. He was with Cobra for almost a decade, but the label went bankrupt, so in 1960 he moved to Chess, where he released a number of recordings, including a compilation alongside the great Albert King (with whom he shared the unusual trait of playing his guitar left-handed and upside down).
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PAT METHENY
Nick Mellor offers an insight into the jazz great's 16th-note lines, and his approach to improvising over static Minor and Dominant 7th chords.
MARTIN MILLER
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STEVE LUKATHER
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JEFF HANNEMAN
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10CC
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T-BONE WALKER
From the heart of Texas to the cool West Coast, join David Gerrish on the journey of this hugely influential electric blues guitar innovator.
FERDINANDO CARULLI Andantino In G (Opus 241)
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